Daily Blues

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Listened to “Leaving Town Blues” this afternoon and thought of this thread.

 

Off “Jumping At Shadows - The Blues Years [Disc 2]” [info: recording (Unissued Version) Session for Radio 1 'Top Gear' Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London. First broadcast on May 23, 1970]

 

Bonus - a nice “reflection” [on Peter Green] by Rory Gallagher:

 

imo a really important topic wrt evolution of and integrity of music [cf. Trains!] – could spend my whole life here but better not …

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Chicken Shack's "Tell Me" from the 1969 Album "O.K. Ken?"

 

with a 1983 follow-up from SRV:

 

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There are a couple of versions of Nina Simone performing “Chilly Winds Don’t Blow” in my Library. The first is unambiguously Blues, even if on the smooth Jazz side of things. It's from the 1964/5 Album "Pastel Blues". The version I much prefer on every level I’ve got tagged as COLPIX CP 116 [USA] (B Side) from 1959.

 

from the Album "Pastel Blues" (1964/5)

 

COLPIX (1959)

 

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27 minutes ago, christopher3393 said:

Thanks, the first would be my clear preference. Such is the issue of taste?

 

Now I think about it that might have been my point!

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Black Cat Bone

 

Hop Wilson [Take 2] (early 1960s)

 

Johnny Winter (from The Progressive Blues Experiment 1968/9)

 

Albert Collins with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland (from Showdown! 1985)

 

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Tore Down

 

Freddie King – 1960s evidently

Rory Gallagher 1972

Eric Clapton – must be about same time as ‘From The Cradle’ = 1994

Gary Moore 1999

 

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37 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

In such case one more VC by the guy who sooner or later has to appear on this thread.

 

Appeared already! Sooner!

 

In my wasted youth I must have seen more than one Hide Away Blues Band (and not thru double vision etc) ...

 

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Bourgeois Blues

 

Leadbelly

 

Pete Seeger

 

Ry Cooder

 

 

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You Don't Love Me Blues - T-Bone Walker (1945)

 

 

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This is easily my preferred Walker version of T-Bone Shuffle:

 

Then there was this:

 

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Tend To Your Business - 2 versions courtesy James Wayne

 

1951

 

 

1961

 

I prefer the original by a long chalk. Not unusual!

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Lowell Fulson - Guitar Shuffle (1952)

 

 

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Roy Brown - Train Time Blues

 

 

Thread altruism ;-)

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Just a imho for conversation's sake. Not trying to be right or anything. Posted on ASR first time in donkey's yesterday. New Thread "Music is Dead". Boils down to whether there's some kind of Golden Age (music of the past was actually better in some way) vs. Grumpy Grandad (you carry on loving the music you tuned in to as a teenager). Tracing over the years "Going Down" [Don Nix] informative to my brain and ears. I'd rather take a walk in the country than in the city any day. My personal arguments in favour of Golden Age include that I used to listen to music "before my time" when I was a teenager unlike my friends/peers - plus I appreciate era-congruent music I've never heard. I know these aren't unassailable arguments. The Tracy Conover performance is not the most polished - but well worth a listen all the way thru - especially if, like me, you have a good system!

 

Moloch (1969)

 

Freddie King (1971)

 

Chicken Shack (1972)

 

Jeff Beck Group (1972) [NB: Cozy Powell]

 

John Lee Hooker (1973)

 

Deep Purple (1976)

 

Luther Allison (1977)

 

Dutch Mason Blues Band (1979)

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck (1989)

 

Dr Feelgood (1991)

 

Peter Green Splinter Group (1997) [NB: Cozy Powell again]

 

Sonic Flower (2003)

 

Tracy Conover (2004)

 

Nine Below Zero (2004)

 

Quireboys (2017)

 

Fun Lovin' Criminal (2019)

 

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Down The Highway – Bob Dylan (‘Freewheelin’’, 1963)

 

 

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Blues Before Sunrise

 

Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (1934)

 

Eric Clapton (‘From The Cradle’, 1994)

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On 5/14/2021 at 12:33 AM, christopher3393 said:

Another classic: "Killing Floor (1964 Single)" - Howlin' Wolf

 

 

 

 

Fantastic

Howlin' Wolf and Clapton/Cray Killing Floor has "same" riff as Long Grey Mare

 

Fleetwood Mac (1968)

 

There's a better "unissued" version [McVie vs. Brunning] / Session for Radio 1 'Nightride'. Recorded at Aeolian Hall, Studio 2, London. First broadcast on April 17, 1968 - Can't find on Youtube

 

Gary Moore (1995)

 

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The Way It Is - Chicken Shack ('100 Ton Chicken', 1969)

 

 

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Good Man Blues - Roy Brown (1951, DE LUXE 3312)

 

Used To Be Bad - Paul McCartney (1997 'Flaming Pie' ft. Steve Miller)

 

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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Tombstone Shadow ('Green River', 1969)

 

 

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Drifting

 

Peter Green / Fleetwood Mac (1967)

 

Top Topham [first lead guitar Yardbirds] and Jim McCarty (1995)

 

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22 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Shake 'Em On Down - Bobo Jenkins, '74

 

 

 

Nice

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On 6/8/2021 at 1:41 AM, orresearch said:

 

 

This is really Ace and has gone on my personal "wants" list. More than a passing resemblance to Robert Cray ...

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On 6/15/2021 at 12:01 PM, christopher3393 said:

Bob Dylan recorded his adaptation of Blind Willie McTell's "Delia" for World Gone Wrong, 1993.

 

imho Dylan "went wrong" after 'Oh Mercy' 1989  / 'Under The Red Sky' 1990 ...

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14 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

 

Agree about the stylistic resemblance. That style is just not my cuppa, but Cray is certainly a fine musician.

 

I honestly don't have a clue.  And when I listened to Dylan's World Gone Wrong, I listened to each original and sometimes another cover. I do really feel that his arrangement and performance of "Delia" breathes life into the song. On the other hand, I preferred the Mississippi Shieks original version of "World Gone Wrong", but I still appreciate what he did with it and it might grow on me.

 

Here's a helpful playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSOKhDFcCAJUzp0hMgw6PmQoU_cun6fLC

 

Perhaps you are more a Blues fundamentalist than I. I have a dreadful music appreciation temperament. I'm a rhythm/pace fiend. If it ain't got swing it don't mean a thing". 😜